The Prime Minister's former director of communications, Andy Coulson, and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have arrived for the first day of the phone-hacking trial.
The two former editors of the News of the World face charges linked to phone hacking and alleged corrupt payments to public officials.
Rebekah Brooks arrives at the Old Bailey with her husband Charlie The Old Bailey trial, which is expected to call 100 witnesses and will involve 22 barristers, could take up to six months.
It is the first trial to result from the phone-hacking scandal, which saw the closure of the News of the World two years ago.
Former Sun and News of the World editor, Brooks, 45, of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is accused of conspiring to intercept communications by illegally access voicemails between October 3, 2000 and August 9, 2006.
She is also charged with two counts of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office linked to alleged inappropriate payments to public officials - one between January 1, 2004 and January 31, 2012, and the other between February 9, 2006 and October 16, 2008.
She faces another two allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
One of those is with her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter, 49, with whom she is alleged to have conspired to remove seven boxes of material from the News International archive.
Brooks' personal assistant Cheryl Carter The second relates to allegations that Brooks, her race horse-trainer husband Charlie Brooks and former head of security at News International Mark Hanna tried to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from police officers who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and The Sun newspapers.
Coulson, 45, from Preston in Kent, is charged with conspiracy to intercept communications in the course of their transmission by illegally accessing voicemails.
The Prime Minister's former spin doctor, Andy Coulson, outside court He is also facing two allegations that he conspired with the tabloid's former royal editor Clive Goodman, 56, and persons unknown to commit misconduct in public office
News of the World head of news Ian Edmondson, 44, from Raynes Park, southwest London, and the tabloid's ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 73, from Woodford Green, Essex, are also accused of conspiracy to illegally access voicemails between October 3 2000 and August 9 2006.
Goodman, from Addlestone in Surrey, also faces two charges of committing misconduct in public office.
The jury was selected at the court with the judge telling them: "It's critical to the jury system ... that a jury takes the case free from any preconceptions. From now on you do not discuss the case with anyone."
The prosecution is expected to begin later this week.
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